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...technical-school courses. An art instructor laid it on the line: "Children don't have prejudices. They are like fruit on the tree, ready to be plucked when ripe." On the walls were student sketches of Castro with peace doves, Castro standing atop the globe with a radiant smile, Castro at the Bay of Pigs invasion, a defiant David facing a hideous U.S. Goliath. A reporter asked if art was giving way to politics. "No," said the instructor. "We give the children complete freedom in what they do. I just give them a theme. Last week we talked about...
...heroine, played with exquisite, deadly grace by Catherine Deneuve the radiant waif of Umbrellas of Cherbourg-is a French manicurist working in London. Her days pass among the minimal terrors of a de luxe beauty salon where she helps refinish the surfaces of wealthy, parchment-faced matrons. In the street outside lies a world of hot-mouthed males whose attentions send her into panicky flight. Every night in bed she waits, staring, petrified, until her uninhibited sister (Yvonne Furneaux) and a married lover come home to curdle a young girl's blood with their noisy nocturnal diversions...
...safe harbor" but as a "challenge constantly renewed." Editors, like philosophers and educators, must address themselves to this challenge by always looking far beyond the magazine's entertainment function to the task of spreading information, "the great hunger and need of our time. Information made radiant by inspiration is the path to the Great Society...
...Kennedy men who suddenly became Johnson retainers in 1963, Larry O'Brien's prospects for advancement hardly seemed the most radiant. While he was a relative stranger in 1961 to the complexities of Capitol Hill-though hardly to politics-O'Brien was largely responsible for passage of the few bills that J.F.K. managed to get through Congress. His success sorely dismayed Vice President Lyndon Johnson, the old maestro of Senate consensus, who had naturally expected to be No. 1 New Frontiersman on Capitol Hill. Yet, to O'Brien's amazement, on the plane back from...
...Paradiso, the most profound and beautiful of the canticles, is a work of radiant religious majesty. Heaven, as Dante conceives it, is a seamless empyrean, a simple blazing thought in which saints and angels mystically merge in the glory of God. Nevertheless, since "thus the human mind must be addressed," Heaven arranges itself for his experience into a hierarchy of nine heavens ascending in series to the Heart of Light. Suddenly "transhumanized," the poet is swiftly borne upward through the heavens as "a falling rill that plunges from a mountain to the depths." Beatrice precedes...